Angel: Yeah, I never told anyone about this, but I-I liked your poems. Spike: You like Barry Manilow.

'Hell Bound'


Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


dcp - Jul 21, 2014 9:17:23 am PDT #2462 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Like, do they drop resolution with reality?

I vote no. One of my recurring anxiety dreams growing up involved blurred vision and being unable to see clearly. I stopped having that dream in my late teens, and it didn't come back after I started needing glasses. I don't recall any dreams where I perceived myself to be wearing glasses.

YDMV


-t - Jul 21, 2014 9:20:43 am PDT #2463 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I still have Netflix DVD service too. But I keep a DVD forever.

Me too for both.


Burrell - Jul 21, 2014 9:21:43 am PDT #2464 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

The similarities among stories of hauntings and alien abductions tells me there's a part of the human brain that creates these "stories" and sensations, but why?

If you don't know the scientific explanation for what you are seeing and feeling, haunting and alien abduction are fairly convincing.

When I was a kid I had the hypnopompic kind all the time, especially if I woke up needing to pee. This meant that late night trudges to the bathroom required wading through shark infested waters or darting past skeleton arms that reached out from the walls.


Connie Neil - Jul 21, 2014 9:22:09 am PDT #2465 of 30000
brillig

Wow, I'm not going to complain about the cat waking me up 15 minutes before the alarm any more. I normally get very good sleep--once I actually go to bed. Hubby was always jealous of the way I can drop off. Those hallucinations would drive you away from sleep.


Jesse - Jul 21, 2014 9:25:41 am PDT #2466 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

And then there's Mike Birbiglia, who ran out of a hotel room window. [link]


Dana - Jul 21, 2014 9:27:15 am PDT #2467 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I've only had the hallucination thing once that I remember, but it was fucking terrifying, especially since it repeated. I would wake up a little, be convinced that someone was moving in the room nearby, fall back asleep, wake up, see the person again, and I couldn't move.


Laura - Jul 21, 2014 9:27:51 am PDT #2468 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Wow, although I suffered form terrible insomnia most of my life I never had any of those types of hallucinations. Just no sleep. Not anymore though. I drop off in no time and all and enter dreamy dream land.


§ ita § - Jul 21, 2014 9:29:37 am PDT #2469 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I vote no.

Not dreams--hallucination. If you see a man in your room is he in 20/40 like your unassisted vision or is he properly in focus?


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 21, 2014 9:35:42 am PDT #2470 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

One of my great-uncles supposedly grabbed his wife and jumped out a window with her while dreaming about a fire.

I used to sleepwalk as a kid, but thankfully no broken glass or ER visits resulted.


Connie Neil - Jul 21, 2014 9:43:18 am PDT #2471 of 30000
brillig

Matt, Hubby tried the same thing in the early days of our marriage, but I woke him up before he got me to the window. He often dreamed of fire in the early years.